Freelancers work a lot with hard disks, backup, etc.
External hard drive beeping and not working:
The hard drive can start beeping, in rare cases, due to a failure of the hard drive’s electronics to supply enough computer power to the spindle motor. Usually, the beeping sound actually comes from the spindle motor hub as it tries in vain to spin the platters.

External hard beeping problem:
External hard disk continuous beeping.PC can not detect an external hard disk. Several freelancers from this community had this problem. One of the freelancers had to Transcend external HDD, and he heard this strange noise, external hard disk beep sound.
He asked me: What are Transcend Hard disk sound Problems & Solutions?
Solution 1:

How to fix external hard drive beeping?
To fix external hard drive beeping, do the following steps:

• Disconnect your external hard drive from the computer.
• Unplug the cable from the hard disk.
• Blow air (remove dust) from the ports of the computer, hard drive, and cable.
• Reconnect the hard drive to the PC via the same cable and check whether the hard drive beeping issue still happens.

Solution 2:
The reason for this continuous beep at the hard disk is a hardware failure. Especially if the disk motor is not running. The main reason for such failure is a lack of power. The problem is your USB port.

It would help if you tried from other USB ports to connect an external hard disk or use a USB hub with an external power supply or try from another notebook or computer.

I usually use a USB port in my computer’s back (not one in front of it).

The problem will be solved in 80% of all cases.

Solution 2 :
Uninstall all USB devices from the device manager and then download drivers for specific intel-based USB ports – simply an uninstall and re-install without letting windows install their recommended drivers.

Good luck!

P.S. If you still have a problem, please write a comment here, and we will ask experts from our community to help you for free.

One of the leading payment services via the Internet is Skrill withdraws from all markets where the transaction is not carried out in euros.
Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) is a payment integration initiative of the European Union to simplify bank transfers denominated in euro.

The company Skrill (former Moneybookers) informed customers outside the single area payments in euros that from 25 November to stop support for the use of debit MasterCard cards – both for income and for payment.

Services company Skrill (ex Moneybookers), which include MasterCard payment card linked to an account on the service, from 25 November cease to be functional for users resident non-SEPA countries, aka countries outside the single area payment in euros.

Dear Customer,

We regret to inform you that as of 25 November 2016, we will no longer offer the Skrill Prepaid Mastercard in your country. You will not be able to use your card but your Skrill Account remains fully functional and your balance is unaffected. You can withdraw funds from your Skrill Account to your bank account or send money to any other Skrill user or online business accepting Skrill. If you have any questions, please visit our website and FAQ page.

Regards

The Skrill Team

The Paysafe company that owns Skrill, as well as the popular NETELLER Service, registered in the UK and many associated withdrawal service payment cards with access to the UK from the European Union (Brexit) to keep users within the eurozone and further harmonization of financial regulation ahead of the historic move for which the citizens of this state decided in a referendum on 23 June of the current year.

Skrill says that orders all users remain intact and available money tied to their account. Payments and collections with Skrill can still be made where the funds remain in the account until users connect to your Skrill account with a bank card some of the financial institutions registered in their country. Although many users globally say that they can still use this company’s services through the said payment card, eWallet-optimizer reports that it is still possible in some countries only with the old MasterCard card while ordering the new will not be possible.

Most of the people that ever open news portal, or watch news on TV are surely aware that there is such a thing as Hedge funds. We all know that people who deal with it have good jobs. It is, however, less known that hedge funds constantly keep getting dozens of inquiries daily from professionals, but also from students looking for job opportunities.
If you want to join the club of dozens who want to have a job in hedge funds, take a look at our suggestions about how to get a good start and make yourself noticed when applying for such a job.
One of the best article that I read How To Get A Job At A Hedge Fund
As it requires a lot of determination to work in a hedge fund, you’ll need to be absolutely sure about it, and not just because of a good paycheck. You must be sure that you are not deciding on this just to pass time while an offer from accounting opens or an opportunity from mutual fund, private equity or ETF.

Your clear desire to build a career in a hedge fund will be obvious from your self-control, discipline, awareness about the industry, networking and in the end your moves. Plan to give it a try at least for a couple of years before definitely deciding to leave; don’t break after a couple of difficult and exhausting months.

Getting a deeper insight in the industry will require you to give yourself into it. If you want to work in a hedge fund, start with making it a habit to read the news about hedge fund, reading literature on the subject, subscribe to some free newsletters and maybe visit some websites that are about it. All that will help you feel the atmosphere of the industry. It will help you get to know who makes the headlines, what jargon is used, what terminology is used, are there any important definitions and expressions, what are the usual strategies and so on.
Learn about strategy called Three-circles. It was suggested in a research by Jim Collins according to which the companies that became great companies from being mediocre but good were using this strategy.
It’s based on analyzing options that leaders of good companies had when they would find themselves on the cross roads of being great or going down. Options were grouped in three sets. One was about passion of the leader, another option was taking the advantage where they had experience and one was going for profitable ideas. The options that could find a place in each of the circles would be taken into consideration. That basically meant that for a great success, one needs to combine passion, profitable actions and their experience.

Another thing to pay attention to when trying to make a way into hedge fund career is to recognize people who can mentor you. Those people should be willing to help you but in a way that you can work together. There are always good hedge fund managers who are willing to help, as in return they get a valuable helper for developing their own career and boosting up their own experience. In order to make sure your mentor likes you, and thus shows you more, and tells you more, you will have to show a lot of commitment, be very keen on learning, show patience and desire at the same time to learn everything that comes your way. When they see such a person, they will be more open and closer to you.
Having completed internships is judgmental for your own development. You should strive to find a way to complete an internship because that is the best way to see for yourself how that particular hedge funds works and creates ideas. And even if you could work as an intern remotely, it would be better for you to work on the site.
During your internship try to imitate hedge fund employers as they go through a rough and busy day in an environment that doesn’t waste time.

Emulate what you see hedge fund workers do and thus you can feel what’s it like.
Developing your value positions that will be your signature is something that you can achieve after reading things about hedge funds, such are books, newsletters and articles and finishing internships. You need to know what exactly you want to be your job and what responsibilities can you handle.

This part resembles to the part where you applied the strategy of the three circles, but this time it is to check more precisely and bring more definite choice about what exactly you wish to do. Becoming an analyst for emerging markets might require you to write about emerging market, about investment analysis, or focus to learn about that area.
Try not to be generic in doing these things, as being a worker in hedge fund will anyway require you to think on your own. So before joining the industry for paycheck, make sure that you have unique ideas about it in general. Something that will show you that you have passion for it. Grab all the knowledge about it you can, and be aware of what you know and how much worthy is that. Don’t become to proud of yourself and don’t appear arrogant when applying for that job, because your employees know that your experience and knowledge is not as promising as your appearance is. They need to see that you are eager to work.
In the end, you should know that not every hedge funds requires the same skills and educational level for sure. Some things differ from one hedge fund to another.

A hedge fund might want know how can you produce for the company by telling them what did you do good for your company in your previous job, how did you contribute.
You’ll want to have good reasons for leaving your previous jobs, as hedge funds will want to see that you are a loyal employer. Also, your educational degree will matter.
Other things that you have done will bring good lift to your chances, like working as PR or proving that you have gathering abilities.
A good thing to try regarding finding a job in a hedge fund is to try giving a shot at companies that did not have open advertised vacancies. You can find some hedge fund networks that can help you get to a hedge fund and to offer your skills
If you manage to arrange such an interview which is informational can help you get some proper training, true experience and a real opportunity to show your focus and desire to work.
You approach must be specialized. When you find a company, call them and explain what your goal is and if it’s possible to get to know more about that company. You will than also be in a position to tell them about yourself and they will see if they can help you.

If you can’t find a way to get yourself an interview with an unadvertised vacancy, you can always try going with a service provider. You will have a chance to get a prime brokerage job and those are good trainings for hedge fund. It will also be rewarded by a paycheck and you will be able to show your skills to fund managers.
Doing all the said things will prepare you and give you an idea about hedge funds or a service provider. But you should know that not many recruiters would hire a person without some experience of at least three years in hedge fund industry. Most of the professionals used experience gained in other industries before joining hedge fund. However, best way is to go through informational interview, or connect with a professional whom you know, or join a hedge fund group. If you don’t know a professional, attending conferences is a good place to get to know them.
When and if you find a hedge fund to apply directly, make sure to call them and ask for a meeting after you submit your resume.
Make sure to let them know that you are on fire, that you are smart and a humble person. They will know if you pretend. So you better be one.

Freelancers like to have fresh good working computers and software. I wouldn’t say I like errors in Windows. When I go to the Event Viewer in Windows 10, I see a lot of errors as such :
“Metadata staging failed, result=0x80070490 for container ‘{CA0E9E80-3E97-FCAC-730A-8CB080FA2581}'”

The problem is in the destination URL in the registry. Your DeviceMetadataServiceURL shows the wrong address.

How to solve :

1) Go to the Regedit option
2) Go to Find and put keyword: DeviceMetadataServiceURL
3) Change the wrong URL to http://dmd.metaservices.microsoft.com/dms/metadata.svc

Problem solved !!!

A lot of freelancers called me to help them to fix various problems in Windows 10 last month. One of them is new version of Skype. People getting this message :

Sorry, we couldn’t connect to skype. Please check your internet connection and try again

Rule is :
Your Intenret explorer and Microsoft Edge must work (surf) if you want to use Skype !

1) Your Internet Explorer 11 and Microsoft Edge doesn’t surf as well.
If this is true than problem is clear.
In Search Windows try to find Internet Explorer. Open this software and go to Internet Options and than Connection tab. There in Settings set like this :

Now test Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge and see do they work now and can you search using this browsers.If you still have problems with Internet Explorer and Edge than read Auto configuration and auto proxy problems with Internet Explorer 11 and Auto configuration settings for Internet Explorer 11.

2) If you can not download Skype and you are getting :

Can’t connect to the download server

This problem you can fix either using intenret explorer connection fix (above is solution) or you can download full installation of skype.
Download Skype full version

Cheers!

Retention Guarantee definition
A retention Guarantee or retention bond is the possibility that the investor keeps part of the money for several months (up to 12 months) after the job is down.

A Retention Bond is issued in favour of an employer where the employer has agreed to waive the right to the deduction of retention monies from sums owed to the contractor for work performed. Generally the retention percentage is between 3% to 5% of the contract price and the bond issued will be for the retention percentage.

In contrast, we can see very often section something as :

Payment shall be made without objection or legal proceedings of any kind, upon receipt of your first written claim (sent by registered letter with confirmation of receipt) stating that the Contractor has failed to perform its contractual obligations fully and properly or that the Contract has been terminated. We shall not delay the payment, nor shall we oppose it for any reason whatsoever. We shall inform you in writing as soon as payment has been made.

So freelancers and contractors need to know that sometimes they need to wait up to 12 months to receive 5% of the money in large projects. The guarantee period is significant for projects because investors need to test products or objects.